Cookiemonsterandmerlin. Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 My question is do you take a pack lunch to work or cant you be bothered. The reason I ask I have just got back from the garage and ever time I am in there at 7am the brickies etc from a large site are there buying rolls drinks etc. They on average spent a tenner each this morning now I know thing are tight I always take sandwichs etc as its so much cheaper but other still seem to being spending money on cooked food which equals VAT on top . So what do you guys/gals do. Cheers OTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J@mes Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I generally take a salad to work with me, but occasionally I will buy hot food from a fastfood joint/ roadside cafe/ sarnie shop - depends what the day has been like! Like you say, some blokes I work with spend £5-10 a day on takeaway food - their choice I guess, but £200 a month is another holiday or two each year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 We ran an early morning cafe and some guys would eat an all day breakfast then buy a packed lunch box And still come in at lunch time for thier dinners about £15 quid a day,even had one bloke would eat two kingsize breakfasts at £3.50 each then a dinner and take home a meal for after work he was about 10 stone and 5 foot 8 tall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 We ran an early morning cafe and some guys would eatan all day breakfast then buy a packed lunch box And still come in at lunch time for thier dinners about £15 quid a day,even had one bloke would eat two kingsize breakfasts at £3.50 each then a dinner and take home a meal for after work he was about 10 stone and 5 foot 8 tall Obviously his mrs keeps him busy when he gets home lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW80 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I would usually take a lunch from home. I have a mate who i work with and go shooting with and he is mustard for buying everything in, garage in the morning for sausage rolls, crisps, chocolate,cigs and lucozade a tenner, most lunch times Mc Donalds, KFC or chippy, when we go for a shot on a saturday the same. Then he will bleet in my ear that he never has any money and is forever borrowing cash and cartridges of me when we go shooting. The concept of trying to cut back a bit was losed on this boy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covlocks Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I spend less than £6 a week and that gives me a morning snack and lunch. A large pack of rolls from the supermarket gives me two a day, fillings are ready mades from Tesco, cheap but taste OK, grapes and a banana or orange. That does me until I reach the pub on the way home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Obviously his mrs keeps him busy when he gets home lol! Never thought of that but could imagine he wouldnt leave the loo all day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 These days I dont make a packed lunch as I work only 30ft away from my kitchen When I worked for a living in an office I used to go the the local sandwich shop, about £3.50 a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 These days I dont make a packed lunch as I work only 30ft away from my kitchen When I worked for a living in an office I used to go the the local sandwich shop, about £3.50 a day. £200 a month bills werent out of the way for some of our regular customers they wouldnt even blink when they came into pay,and we had a few husband and wife partners etc paying joint monthly bills of around 300 a month.Could you imagine some of these people using the more popular coffee houses now, I reckon they could be spending a helluva lot more,a friend is addicted to cos/coffee at 2.99 a cup and drinks about 4-5 a day from a motorway services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I don't I live and work in the same village, so home for lunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyska Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I normally over cook things at home, and pack up chilli, fried rice or any other left overs and also have a cupboard at work with cans of beans, soup and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesbach Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 packed luch all the way for me! 2x6rolls in tesco for £1, 10 slices ham for £1.50, yogurts 5 for £1 10 crisps £1 and fruit..whatevers there on offer! works out under £7 for the week! some guys i work with spend this in a day..! whats better still, the wife puts it all together for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Where I work we all comment about the OTT prices we charge the passengers for food & drink. Then some of the guys go and buy it for lunch! And, no, we don't get a discount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonblasterian Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Wife does the pack up for me every day.Plus most days i get a cooked dinner on a plate as well to put in the microwave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CraigBenson Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I'm lucky that my wife makes my butty box for me every day. I don't tend to by other things on top of that. I usualy just pick at it throughout the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegleg31 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 must admit i spend a forune a week on my snap i'd love to find time to make sarnie's but i'm up at 5:00 am have a shower then walk the dog's and straight out to work at 6:30am.don't even get time for a cup of tea so buy a coffe at the local garage . i've tried making them the night before but find they go all soggy .sometimes i'll feel guilty about the money i waste and go through a stage of making the effort but it rarely last's longer than a couple of week's . can't really put on the missus anymore as she's up with me in a morning to see to the chicken's before she's off to her horse then onto work. if i reckon it up i spend £50/£60 a week on my snap for work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 i take a sandwich + a bit of salad ,packet of crisps and a few biscuits every day ,coffee and tea at work is only 10p a cup . The sandwich bar in the canteen works out at £3.00 to £3.50 per sandwich and are usually a load of **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aled Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Lived and worked in Cardiff for 5 years, after Wales **** 6 Nations in 2003 i was skint (i'd drowned my sorrows too much) Realised i was spending about £10 week on sarnies from the shop. So i walked round tescoes with £10, got enough bread, ham, cheese, tomoatoes, apples and crisps for my weekly lunch. On top of that i could buy pasta, minced meat, onions tin of tomatoes mushrooms, for three evening meals, OR potaoes sausesges or a pork chop and a bag of peas, plus 4 cans of tescoes bitter. Everything even the bitter was tesco home brand the one above the blue srtipe, and tasted fine. Remember this is 7 years ago mind. Learnt my lesson regarding value for money, enjoy a lunch out about 1 a month, sandwich box the rest of the time. Cheers Aled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatcatsplat Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Corporate lunch at least 3 days a week for me (on the companies tab) - Probably one of the reasons my name isn't Catsplat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper3 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 monday, tuesday & wednesday normaly buy a large Pasty Thursday...Kfc friday..i don't like working past 12 so normaly home early......off to make a bacon sarnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camokid Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 at work there is a canteen so i just buy beans on toast every day its 80p two brown toast and two big spoons of beans it would cost me more to take a pack lunch and i would only have cheese batch like the other 10.000 pack lunches iv made Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I take a packed lunch to school in the week generally consisting of a pasty, chocolate, crisps, haribo / other shockingly healthy items of food. On a Saturday I buy lunch at work (Sainsbury's staff canteen) and generally end up having at least 2 plates of food (2 seperate dinners) and a drink for about £3 in total. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 (edited) Until recently I used to buy lunch every day, takeaway every other evening etc. I sat down with the mrs and looked at our money situation because things have been a little tight lately and decided we're now on a self imposed takeaway ban! I make lunch now unless I'm close to home (that's why I'm here now, lunch break). We have one takeaway of our choice per week because cutting it out completely would be sad, but there's no need to do it to the extent we did! It's incredible what it cost us. I worked out between us we were spending £240 per month just on takeaway, then maybe £6 average per day on my lunch, so another +/- £120? That's £360 per month, over £4k per year! EDIT... My mrs just pointed out, imagine if we were smokers too! Edited August 13, 2010 by njc110381 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno 357 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I eat the same thing everyday at work its sooooooooo bloody boring. Working 12 hr shifts its tesco value bran flakes and a banana for breakfast Lunch is boiled rice black olives and tuna with chili sauce almost every day Don't do bread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vermincinerator Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 (edited) I have been taking a packed lunch consisting of 4 corned beef sandwiches, an apple and an orange with me every day since i started work in 1977, how sad is that? Ian. Edited August 13, 2010 by Vermincinerator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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